Re: OT: Subscription Software

2018-11-02 Thread Jostein Øksne
It's certainly convenient to have all that available at need. Saves you the 
trouble of saving offline copies of your installation files.
For the record,  I should add that my computer reinstallation with all offline 
installs except windows itself took around four hours. All told.

Jostein

Den 2. november 2018 07.57.05 CET, skrev jco...@iinet.net.au:
>Following recent discussions on this, I just found one advantage of
>using
>the subscription model for both Adobe and Microsoft.  I had a
>frustrating
>experience with my desktop (W10 pro, 64-bit, i5 CPU) running very
>slowly,
>like 2 minutes to open any Office 365 program, multiple seconds to
>respond
>to a keystroke, and finally a message that Windows itself could not
>operate.
>I tried all the usual fixes, cleaning, defragging etc., none of which
>made
>any difference. So, in the end I decide to reset Windows, which I knew
>was
>going to mean re-installing my apps: however, with both Adobe and
>Microsoft,
>all I needed to do was to log in to my account and magically the latest
>versions were available to be installed!  Other apps I either had the
>original DVD's or had the setup files from the original downloads, so
>the
>whole process to get back to a working PC took only one day in all, and
>it's
>also meant a significant clear out of software I only used very
>occasionally.  It's just like having a new computer!
>
>
>John in Brisbane

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OT: Subscription Software

2018-11-02 Thread jcoyle
Following recent discussions on this, I just found one advantage of using
the subscription model for both Adobe and Microsoft.  I had a frustrating
experience with my desktop (W10 pro, 64-bit, i5 CPU) running very slowly,
like 2 minutes to open any Office 365 program, multiple seconds to respond
to a keystroke, and finally a message that Windows itself could not operate.
I tried all the usual fixes, cleaning, defragging etc., none of which made
any difference. So, in the end I decide to reset Windows, which I knew was
going to mean re-installing my apps: however, with both Adobe and Microsoft,
all I needed to do was to log in to my account and magically the latest
versions were available to be installed!  Other apps I either had the
original DVD's or had the setup files from the original downloads, so the
whole process to get back to a working PC took only one day in all, and it's
also meant a significant clear out of software I only used very
occasionally.  It's just like having a new computer!


John in Brisbane





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